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Meditation – Basic Principles and Benefits

In our everyday life, meditation teaches us the art of being present and to be the casual observer.

Being the casual observer is a true art.

It means observing without reacting.

Every meditation has the potential to be healing as we are offered to opportunity to relax, release and renew.

Guided Meditation asks three (3) things of us:

To connect with our imagination.

To connect with our breath.

To be present and enjoy the journey of the meditation without expectations.

Accomplishing these three (3) things creates a place where self-healing can begin.

Imagination

Guided Meditation asks us to connect to our imagination by using our 5 internal senses – seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. Once activated, the imagination becomes the bridge to our subconscious. It is the subconscious that shapes the way we react to and interact with the world around us. It is the subconscious that never waivers from our highest purpose, our highest good, our true path.

Breath

How we breath has an enormous effect on how our body functions. Chest or shallowing breathing occurs when we are stressed. By consciously breathing deeply and slowly, we can shift our body from the fight or flight mode to the rest and digest mode.

Being Present – Being the Casual Observer

The trickiest part of Guided Meditation is often being or remaining present. Being present means getting out of our minds and into our body.

When we are present we are able to appreciate and understand what our body is telling us through the language of emotions.

The uncomfortable truth is that we must first feel an emotion before we can give ourselves permission to release it.

As the casual observer it far easier to acknowledge our emotions with love and understanding instead of judgement and self-loathing.

Because acknowledging the emotion without judgement can be so difficult we, as humans, tend to lock our emotions away.

Locking emotions away is easy, instead of allowing ourselves to feel, we choose to be in our mind. Thinking and rationalizing our way around a situation can be far easier short-term instead of allowing ourselves to feel.

The long-term consequence of ignoring our emotions is to increase our stress levels.

Chronic stress is detrimental to our health.

Benefits

Meditation has been scientifically and medically linked to….

Easing stress, anxiety, depression and chronic pain

Giving rise to improved relationships and productivity

Enhancing short-term memory and the ability to focus and concentrate.

Individuals who meditate are often healthier, more adaptive, creative and productive.

With Guided Meditation, my philosophy is that we will experience what we are meant to experience.

There is no right or wrong.

Every experience is personal, every experience is unique and every experience is healing.